Politifact.com: Stories mentioning Chain emailhttp://www.politifact.com/personalities/chain-email/Stories or blog posts about Chain email from Politifact.comen-usMon, 16 Feb 2015 06:00:00 -0500PolitiFact&#39;s 5 most-viewed fact checks from Januaryhttp://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2015/feb/16/politifacts-five-most-viewed-fact-checks-january/Here are PolitiFact&rsquo;s top 5 most-viewed fact-checks and special reports of January 2015, counting down to the most popular story. 5. Rand Paul says most people receive disability for back pain, anxiety Like many Republican presidential hopefuls, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., is already traveling to some of the early primary states in anticipation of a 2016 decision. While in New Hampshire, Paul was caught making a dubious claim about the disability program: &quot;Over half the people on disability are either anxious or their back hurts. Join the club,&quot; he said, adding that people were &quot;gaming the system.&quot; But the numbers ... <a href="/truth-o-meter/article/2015/feb/16/politifacts-five-most-viewed-fact-checks-january/">>>More</a>Mon, 16 Feb 2015 06:00:00 -0500http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2015/feb/16/politifacts-five-most-viewed-fact-checks-january/PolitiFact Florida&#39;s top 10 fact-checks for 2014http://www.politifact.com/florida/article/2014/dec/31/politifact-florida-10-fact-checks-2014/A busy election season is over, but as PolitiFact Florida reflects on what our readers found most popular, we noticed an interesting trend -- many of our most widely read fact-checks for 2014 weren&rsquo;t election-related at all. Whatever could pique readers&rsquo; interest more than gubernatorial candidates&rsquo; records on education spending or jobs numbers? Read on and find out which were the top 10 items of the year. 10. &quot;Lead bullets will have to come from overseas after EPA closed smelter, chain email says&quot; A chain email in April invoked a smattering of conspiracy theorist scapegoats, blaming the Environmental Protection Agency ... <a href="/florida/article/2014/dec/31/politifact-florida-10-fact-checks-2014/">>>More</a>Wed, 31 Dec 2014 15:00:00 -0500http://www.politifact.com/florida/article/2014/dec/31/politifact-florida-10-fact-checks-2014/5 fact-checks about the high cost of college tuitionhttp://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2014/sep/01/5-fact-checks-about-high-cost-college-tuition/As students head back to college this month, many will find it a tough call about what&rsquo;s more stressful -- their homework, or their looming student debt. In recent months, PolitiFact has done a number of fact-checks about tuition and student debt. Here are five of them: &bull; &quot;In 1978, a student who worked a minimum-wage summer job could afford to pay a year&#39;s full tuition at the 4-year public university of their choice.&quot; Mostly True. This claim came from a meme created by OurTime.org, an advocacy group for young Americans. When you look at the historical data, the comparison ... <a href="/truth-o-meter/article/2014/sep/01/5-fact-checks-about-high-cost-college-tuition/">>>More</a>Mon, 01 Sep 2014 16:00:28 -0400http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2014/sep/01/5-fact-checks-about-high-cost-college-tuition/Top 10 most fact-checked people on the Truth-O-Meterhttp://www.politifact.com/georgia/article/2014/jan/29/top-10-fact-checked-people-truth-o-meter/We suspected that President Barack Obama was the most fact-checked person on the Truth-O-Meter, but we confirmed it when we compiled data to mark the 500th time we&rsquo;ve fact-checked him. Curious about who else has been fact-checked most often? We were, too. So we created a list of the Top 10 most fact-checked people on the Truth-O-Meter, which includes our state affiliates. Numbers are accurate as of Jan. 22, 2014. As you might suspect, we fact-check presidential candidates the most frequently. Since our 2007 launch, we&rsquo;ve fact-checked Obama the most, followed by 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney and 2008 nominee ... <a href="/georgia/article/2014/jan/29/top-10-fact-checked-people-truth-o-meter/">>>More</a>Wed, 29 Jan 2014 09:00:40 -0500http://www.politifact.com/georgia/article/2014/jan/29/top-10-fact-checked-people-truth-o-meter/Fact-checking claims about how trade deals become lawhttp://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2013/nov/29/fact-checking-claims-about-how-trade-deals-become-/With the public and the media these days focusing on Obamacare and a nuclear agreement with Iran, a major proposed trade deal known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership hasn&rsquo;t received much attention. But a reader recently sent us a chain email about it, so we decided to take a closer look at the international agreement that&rsquo;s being negotiated. The Trans-Pacific Partnership would set ground rules for trade between a dozen nations in the Pacific region. It&rsquo;s been in negotiation for several years among the United States, Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam. These countries ... <a href="/truth-o-meter/article/2013/nov/29/fact-checking-claims-about-how-trade-deals-become-/">>>More</a>Fri, 29 Nov 2013 06:00:00 -0500http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2013/nov/29/fact-checking-claims-about-how-trade-deals-become-/Is the U.N. coming to take your guns?http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2013/aug/12/un-coming-take-your-guns/Is the United Nations coming to take your guns? A realistic-looking&nbsp;document sent to us recently by a reader seems to say it&#39;s going to happen. The document, which is circulating on social media, says the world body is moving forward with plans to help member nations disarm their civilian populations of &quot;military grade,&quot; &quot;concealable&quot; and &quot;hunting grade&quot; firearms, and even &quot;ammunition and components to manufacture ammunition.&quot; This would seem to support fears among Americans who support the right to bear arms that either the U.S. government or a world government is on the verge of taking away lawful citizens&rsquo; guns. ... <a href="/truth-o-meter/article/2013/aug/12/un-coming-take-your-guns/">>>More</a>Mon, 12 Aug 2013 12:30:09 -0400http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2013/aug/12/un-coming-take-your-guns/&#39;It&#39;s on page 107 of the health care bill!&#39;http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2013/jun/14/its-page-107-health-care-bill/The main provisions of President Barack Obama&rsquo;s 2010 landmark health care law are getting closer and closer to implementation. On Jan. 1, 2014, most Americans will be required to buy insurance or pay a penalty. The poor will qualify for an expanded Medicaid program in many (but not all) states, and those of modest means everywhere will qualify for federal credits to buy private health insurance. As the law gets closer to reality, we here at PolitiFact are seeing an uptick in anonymous chain emails about the law. Readers have forwarded us the email asking for fact-checks. Here are three ... <a href="/truth-o-meter/article/2013/jun/14/its-page-107-health-care-bill/">>>More</a>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 14:31:14 -0400http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2013/jun/14/its-page-107-health-care-bill/PolitiFact&#39;s oddest fact-checks of 2012http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2012/dec/26/our-oddest-fact-checks-2012/If you want fact-checks on the weighty, wonky issues of the day, you turn to PolitiFact. But the Truth-O-Meter also has a sense of humor, so we occasionally do light-hearted or downright odd fact-checks. Here are some of the more unusual fact-checks we did in 2012: Was Bane, the villain in the new Batman movie, a sneaky attempt to smear Mitt Romney? Uh, no. It turns out that the villainous Bane first appeared in Batman comic books in 1993, long before Romney entered presidential politics. Even the character&rsquo;s creator &mdash; who identifies as a conservative &mdash; called a suggested link ... <a href="/truth-o-meter/article/2012/dec/26/our-oddest-fact-checks-2012/">>>More</a>Wed, 26 Dec 2012 06:00:00 -0500http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2012/dec/26/our-oddest-fact-checks-2012/PolitiFact&#39;s guide to Thanksgiving dinner http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2012/nov/19/politifacts-guide-thanksgiving-dinner/At Thanksgiving dinner, there&#39;s probably a good chance you&#39;ll end up sitting beside your uncle. You love your uncle, but you could do without all those chain e-mails that he forwards to you, the ones that claim the government is forcing you to get rid of your light bulbs, that &quot;Obamacare&quot; is going to put a tax on home sales and that President Barack Obama fits the biblical description of the Antichrist. (Note to uncles: We&#39;re not really singling you out. Chain e-mails get forwarded by aunts, grandparents and plenty of other relatives.) So PolitiFact has put together this handy ... <a href="/truth-o-meter/article/2012/nov/19/politifacts-guide-thanksgiving-dinner/">>>More</a>Mon, 19 Nov 2012 11:36:50 -0500http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2012/nov/19/politifacts-guide-thanksgiving-dinner/Debunking claims about a new home sales taxhttp://www.politifact.com/ohio/article/2012/jul/26/debunking-chain-emails-claim-health-reform/Did you get the chain email that claims the health care law will institute a new tax on home sales? Here&rsquo;s the email many readers have forwarded to us: &quot;Under the new health care bill &mdash; did you know that all real estate transactions will be subject to a 3.8% Sales Tax? The bulk of these new taxes don&rsquo;t kick in until 2013 (presumably after Obama&rsquo;s re-election). You can thank Nancy, Harry and Barack and your local Democrat Congressman for this one. If you sell your $400,000 home, there will be a $15,200 tax. This bill is set to screw ... <a href="/ohio/article/2012/jul/26/debunking-chain-emails-claim-health-reform/">>>More</a>Thu, 26 Jul 2012 12:15:00 -0400http://www.politifact.com/ohio/article/2012/jul/26/debunking-chain-emails-claim-health-reform/